This corpse demon was transformed due to consuming too many elixir pills while alive, accumulating a large amount of elixir toxins in its body, which allowed its physical body to remain immortal after death. After years of cultivation, it evolved into a corpse demon.
Now, with Li Qingxin entangled with the corpse demon, Lin Bai seizes the opportunity to slip through their battleground, heading straight into the depths of the corridor ahead.
Lin Bai firmly believes that the warrior who came here to seek treasures last time probably feared the presence of this corpse demon, undoubtedly leaving behind some elixir pills, particularly in the area guarded by the corpse demon.
Lin Bai dashed past the area where Li Qingxin and the corpse demon were fighting, heading straight forward.
Soon, Lin Bai reached the end of the corridor and saw several stone chambers. In the grooves of the stone chamber walls, indeed, many medicine bottles were still placed.
"There really are more!"
Lin Bai hurriedly walked over, retrieving the medicine bottles from the dusty grooves, opening them for a look.
As the first bottle was opened, a foul stench rushed out, and the elixir pills inside instantly turned to powder, vanishing within the bottle.
"They’ve all rotted!"
Lin Bai dropped the bottle and quickly checked the other medicine bottles, picking them up one by one for careful examination.
Most of the elixirs in these jade bottles had decayed, but a few were still well-preserved.
"Phoenix Bone Elixir, a body-refining elixir suitable for warriors in the Death Reversal realm."
"Blood Soul Pill, an elixir for cultivating divine soul power, suitable for any warrior."
"..."
"Saint Seal Pill, a solidifying and nourishing elixir suitable for warriors in the Yin Saint realm."
"Earth Soul Elixir, a body-refining elixir suitable for Divine Elixir realm warriors."
"..."
Lin Bai found many consumable elixirs here, and without considering their quality, he swept them all into his storage bag.
He slowly plundered each stone chamber, yet found nothing particularly good.
The elixirs he found were mostly suitable for weaker warriors, with very few available for Cauldron Questioning realm warriors.
After searching several stone chambers, Lin Bai arrived at the last chamber.
This chamber was filled with a foul odor.
The stench in the chamber was exactly the same as the stench emanating from the corpse demon.
Upon entering the chamber, Lin Bai immediately realized this was the residence of the corpse demon.
And in this stone chamber, aside from the persistent foul odor, there was a complete alchemy furnace placed inside.
Beneath the alchemist, the pill fire was blazing.
Within the elixir furnace, an aroma spread throughout.
"Is someone still refining pills?"
Lin Bai was startled, cautiously approaching the elixir furnace, lifting the lid to see a number of elixir pills inside.
These elixirs were being melted by the pill fire, turning into a thick liquid.
"He actually melted all these refined elixirs together, intending to refine a brand new elixir from them?"
"This is... the Mud Lotus Pill Refinement Skill..."
Upon seeing this pill refinement skill, Lin Bai instantly recalled from "Great Demon’s Pill Path Memory" that indeed, such a technique existed.
This alchemical technique gathers the world’s most difficult-to-swallow elixirs together for a new forging process.
In ancient alchemy sects, no alchemist could succeed in refining an elixir in one attempt. Many alchemists produced numerous waste pills.
Most waste pills were directly discarded.
For example, at the mountain gate of the Poison God Clan, the Poison Mountain Range.
It’s rumored that the Poison Mountain Range became what it is due to the accumulation of too many waste pills, nourishing its toxicity, which led to the Poison God Clan establishing their sect there.
During ancient alchemical eras, there was an alchemist who developed a skill, the Mud Lotus Pill Refinement Skill.
This pill refinement skill mainly involved putting all waste pills created through alchemy into a refining furnace, extracting the sparse spiritual potency, and further purifying this potency to refine it into an elixir.
However, exhibiting this pill refinement skill was always extremely odorous.
Moreover, in the refinement furnace, burning waste pills produced thick elixir liquid, which was extremely unsightly, referred to as alien species by ancient alchemists.
Yet, the elixirs refined through this method were not without efficacy. On the contrary, they often had miraculous effects.
"Is that corpse demon refining pills?" After seeing this alchemy furnace, Lin Bai’s heart suddenly entertained a terrifying thought.
Could this alchemy furnace be used by the corpse demon for pill refining?
Glug glug glug...
At that moment, strange noises emanated from within the alchemy furnace.
Lin Bai approached the furnace again, opening the lid to see within the thick and disgusting liquid a pill, emerging unstained by the surrounding sludge, exuding a charming medicinal fragrance, rising from the liquid.
This elixir contained extremely potent medicinal properties.
"It was actually refined?"
"Could it be that the corpse demon’s immense power comes from its alchemy?"
"How is this possible? Is the corpse demon’s intelligence really that high?"
Lin Bai looked at the alchemy furnace, speaking with astonishment.
"Never mind, since a pill has formed, I’ll just take it first." Lin Bai took out the green gourd from his storage bag, removed the cork, and a suction force drew in the elixir from the alchemy furnace, capturing it within the green gourd.
Then, Lin Bai looked into the alchemy furnace, and after taking the elixir, the furnace returned to calm.
The pill fire beneath the furnace also began to slowly extinguish.
This indicated that this furnace was meant to refine just one elixir.
"This elixir must be unusual. If I use it well, it could probably help me break through my realm." Lin Bai’s eyes flashed as he murmured softly.
Immediately, after securing the elixir, Lin Bai looked around. With no other treasures in sight, he swiftly headed forward.
Lin Bai came and went swiftly, returning to the battlefield of Li Qingxin and the corpse demon.
Li Qingxin, only at the first level of the Wending Realm, though the corpse demon wasn’t highly intelligent, was still extremely powerful. Naturally, Li Qingxin had no advantage against it.
At present, Li Qingxin was covered in injuries, his face pale, with blood at the corner of his mouth.
Seeing Lin Bai return from the depths, he urgently shouted, "Boy, whatever treasures you got, bring them here and split them with Auntie!"
Lin Bai halted, looking at the battle between Li Qingxin and the corpse demon, and smiled immediately, "Thanks to Miss Li Qingxin’s help, I was able to venture into the depths so effortlessly."
"Miss Li Qingxin’s great favor is something I can never repay in this lifetime, perhaps in another life if fate wills it!"
"Farewell."
With that, Lin Bai turned and fled.
The corpse demon, after all, was comparable to a strong one of the seventh or eighth level of the Wending Realm. Even if Lin Bai and Li Qingxin teamed up, they probably wouldn’t be a match for it.
With Li Qingxin holding back the corpse demon, Lin Bai thought it safer to make a quick escape.

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